Anti-induction shield



NOV. 25, 1930. A. HERZ 1,782,875

l ANTIINDUCTION SHIELD Filed Feb. 16, 1928 Patented Nov. 25, 1930 ALFRED HERZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS i ANTI-INDUCTION SHIELD Application iiled February 16, 1928. Serial No. 254,706.

This invention relates protective device the protection of the like nonpower to an anti-induction which has for its purpose telephone, telegraph, and conducting lines which I term herein broadly as signal wires and the apparatus connected therewith which may be in the neighborhood of power lines or subject to the inductive iniiuence of/a power system.

I am aware of the fact that various methods and means have been employed to balance out the inductive effects of a power system, but the results have not been successful to the extent of eliminating inductive disturbances and it is not the object of this invention to prevent the power cycle hum in a telephone system, but my invention is, on the other hand, a safety device for preventing the induction of excessive voltages in the protected lines as will hereinafter become more apparent.

' Considering for instance a three phase power system with a grounded neutral and a telephone system having a portion thereof of perhaps three or four miles, more or less paralleling the power line. The telephone apparatus and wires may be insulated to withstand a maximum of 500 volts, and any induction of a greater voltage will be dangerous and destructive.

v It is possible to transpose the conductors of telephone lines and the like, but this transposition merely equalizes the inductive effect as between the two sides of the line and does not in any way reduce the inducted voltage.

If, in the case under consideration, one of the power wires becomes broken or otherwise grounded, a vsingle phase loop of comparatively great width, depending on the height of the poles or towers and extending perhaps or miles is produced. Such a loop sends out magnetomotive forces through a considerable area and dangerously high voltages are induced in neighboring lines of communication. Under this condition transposition of the power wires or of the signal Wires would be wholly ineffective, I propose to provide a conductive path in parallel with the ground return and have this conductorinductively related to the powenwires to greatly neutralizeL the inductive eiect, the power system would otherwise have on the signal wires. It is within the contemplation of my invention to employ such a conductor in immediate association with the signal wires instead of with the power wires, if found more desirable in the particular instance, or I may provide, two such conductors,- one associated with the power wires and the other associated with the telephone wires, but in either case, the conductive path so provided should preferably be interposed between the power wires and the wires to be protected.

F or this purpose, I'provide -a Jfull power sized conductor adequately insulated from both systems of conductors and grounded at frequent intervals of say every three er tive poles more or less, as may be required to give the amount of protection necessary to insure safety under all circumstances and conditions. For instance, if the protected line is insulated for 500 volts and a single phase loop, as heretofore described, produces in a given section of telephone line a voltage of 700 or 800 volts, I would so design and equip my protective conductor with the requisite number of grounds to prevent the induction of over 300 volts maximum in the protected line.

In Vaddition to the utility of my invention as above set forth, the protective conductor will effectually operate to neutralize the resultant magnetic field of a power line caused by unbalance resulting from corona loss, or other leakage and more particularly my invention functions to protect a telephone line or the like from the influence of the resultant ield which is at aii times present on account of the fact that the power wires are frequently spaced many -feet apart and the telephone wires are considerably nearer one of the power wires than the other. In such cases, a voltage will be directly in duced in the protecting conductor and a current will flow in opposite direction to the inducing current in accordance with Lenzs law thereby producing a magnetomotive force neutralizing to a great extent the inducing field and thereby eliminating or at all times preventing the voltage induced in the protected wires from exceeding a predetermined maznmum value.

In order that those skilled in the art mayv more thoroughly understand my invention,

I have shown in the accompanying drawings,

` a specific illustration of my invention asl in actual use:

Fig. 1 is a wiring diagram of a three phase power line4 showing a line to be protected v the protected line, respectively.

' tor and create an un netic field. The phase wire A is shown The power system may consist of a multiphase generator 5V connected to the phase wires A, B and C, the neutral being grounded-at 6 by conductor 7. Telephone lines 8 and 9 are shown paralleling the power line for some distance and it .is the paralleling portion, in particular, that needs to be protected so that it will not receive and transmit to other parts of the system dangerous voltages which would otherwise be induced therein. A protective or safety conductor 10 of relatively large current-carrying capacity is preferably supported on the power line poles ori towers, as the case may be, and suitably insulated therefrom. This conductor of large .current carrying capacity, grounded at frequent intervals, operates as a short circuited secondary winding with relation to the electromagnetic induction of the power line, and upon the occurrence of the phase to ground fault it acts as a shunt upon the ground return to conduct most of the-current from said grounded power wire. At frequent intervals as at 11, the conductor l0 is grounded by wires 12, in order that it `may pick up current that would otherwise return by wayof the ground to the generaalance of :the magbroken and grounded at 13, the dotted extension 14 indicating where the wire A should normally be positioned. A single phase current passes through the loop constituted by the generator 5, phase wire A to ground at 13 and back through the ground as indicated by the arrows/llthrough the conductor 7 to the generator thus completing the circuit.l By theuse of the protecting conductor 10, the single phase current dividing in accordance with the resistance of the two paths presented, in part enters into the ground wire 12 and traverses the conductor 10 which by its proximity to the si nal wires and by the induction effect outsi e v of theloop so formed prevents excessive disturbances on the lines 8 and 9. It is 4tu:l be observed that the axis of the included magnetic eifect of current` flowing in the vertical loop comprising the phase conductor A and ground return15 is horizontal, producing a maximum induction eect upon signal wires 8, 9. However, since the shield wire 10 is on the same poles as the power wire A the loop formed by said wires A and 10 'is substantially horizontal and the axis of the induction from the current flowing in the vertical loop.

. In Fig. 2 is' illustrated a power system Y identical in every respect to that'shown in Fig. 1 and the line to be protected the same as shown in Fig.` 1, but the protecting conductor 16 is supported adjacent the lines- 8 and 9 on the telephone poles, instead of on the power poles as heretofore described. rIfhe conductor 16 is grounded at 17 at frequent intervals by the wire 18.

The operation in this case is similar to that of the construction shown in Fig. 1 except that the action is directed to the protection of the particular section of lines with which it is associated rather than a general neutralization of the disturbing field, for the reason that relatively less of the return current is picked up and the voltage induced in the conductor 16 bythe disturbing ield causes a current to flow` which augmented by the returning ground current creates a counter magnetomotive force which neutralizes the disturbing field in the immediate locality of the line with which the conductor is associated and prevents the induction of excessive voltages in the protected line.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the use of a conductor 10 and a conductor 16, whichcooper- `where they the electromagnetic effects of the two flows of current tend to neutralize each other in adjacent space.

However, with respect to the communication wires which are disposed adjacent -the transmission line, one ofv thepower wires may lie nearerb to the communication wires than another power wire, so that there would tend to be n residual or unbalanced magnetic influence of the current flow 1n sard one power -wire upon the communication wires. This may, under conditions approaching the ideal.

be substantially neutralized by transposition of the power wires. If transposition is inadequate, or cannot be full carried out, an unneutra-lized or residual eld will still be present.

rIhis condition of substantial cancellation of the magnetic fields of the power wires with respect to a communication wire will be upset by any condition such as that due to current flowing in one or more of the conduce tors of the power system without the mutual cancellation eiifect provided by the return flow of current through one or more of the conductors of the transmission system. In other words, any current How which does not have its magnetic eifect cancelled due to its own .return circuit will cause a voltage to appear 'upon the communication line. y

An example of this is a flow of current, usually termed residual current, fiowing from the power conductors and finding a return path by wayof a more or less distant earth connection. This residual current may be due to unbalance between the transformers in a bank, or to over-saturation of the cores of the transformers, or other causes.

Another example of unbalance would be as above recited, where one of the conductors of the transmission line is faulted. This latter condition is, of course, more severe than the so-called residual current, but it is only temporary in character, whereas the residual current may persist continuously.

There are other conditions which will cause similar ei'ects.

The. grounded shield wire such as is herein discussed does not carry current under ideal conditions, where a complete magnetic balance is secured. In practice, such an ideal condition is rarely attained, but as soon as any departure from ideal condition occurs the shield wire assumes its duty as a low resistance path for current induced by the unbalanced iield, setting up by its own current iow an opposing magnetic ield, tending to ameliorate the conditions under which the communication wires must operate.

`I employ the term transmission system, herein, in its broadest sense.

.The shielding means, consisting of either the single wires 1() or 16 shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or the two wires 10 and 16, shown in Fig. 3, provides one or more vertical loops roken up in sections by the ground taps 12-12 and 1 8-18, which constitute a closed coil of such low resistance that the residual unbalanced or unneutralized magnetic efects due to either the normal power current flow without transposition, "or inadequate: transposition, or residual current flow from unbalanced conditions within the transmission system, or ground fault current, will cause a current How dueto induced voltage great enough to reduce the effect upon the 7 signalling conductor to a point where operation of said signalling conductor is not endangered. Y

Having described my invention in its pre' ferred form, I do not intend to be limited by thespecilic details herein illustrate-d and described, but desire to avail myself of such variations andmodilications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

IVhereas in the specification and claims I refer to shielding telephone and the like lines I intend .to include thereby such circuits or lines as inherently employ relatively weak currents for operating connected mechanisms or apparatus such, for example, as telegraph lines, wires used in remote control of other apparatus, supervisory circuits, relay circuit-s, television, or picture transmission circuits and the like. Such lines or circuits operating inherently on small currents would be materially disturbed by extraneous iields caused by power wires in normal or abnormal condition.

I claim:

1. A system of the class described, c0mprising in combination an A. C. power transmitting line comprising aerial conductors insulated from ground except through a groundedY neutral connection, an insulated signaling conductor paralleling the power line for a suihcient distance that when it is subjected to the inductive eii'ect of currentflow in the power line a potential will tend to be induced upon said signaling conductor in excess of the insulation value of said signal- Y ing conductor, afshielding wire of substantially the conductivity of the aerial conduc- 'tors of the power line interposed between the power line and the signaling conductor, and a series of highly conductive grounded taps connected to said shielding wire, said shielding wire being of suicient capacity to conduct therethrough the return flow of current in case of a ground fault of one of the conductors of the transmission line, and by the induced current flow caused by the ungrounded iow of current in the power line, or the conducted flow of fault current in the power line, reducing the induced voltage on the signaling conductor to a safe value within the insulation value of the same.

2. A system of the class described, comprising in combination an A. C. power transmitting line comprising aerial conductors insulated from ground except through a grounded neutral connection, an insulated signalling conductor paralleling the power line for a sufiicient distance that when it is subjected to the inductive effect of current flow in the power line a potential will tend to be induced upon said signalling conductor in excess of the insulation value of said signalling conductor, shielding means be` tween the power line and the signalling conductor, said shielding means being of a conductivity of the order of one of the 'power carrying conductors and having a due to either' electro-magnetic induction of l 'the nongrounded current flow in the power line or to the conducted flow of fault current in thefcase of a ground fault o one of the conductors of the transmission line.

3. A system of the class described, comv prising in combination an A. C. power transmitting line comprising a plurality of insulated metallic conductors, an insulated s1gnalling conductor paralleling the power line for a sufficient disutancevthat when it is subjected to the inductive effect of unbalanced current flow in the power line a potential will tend to be induced Dupon said signalling coniductor in excess of the insulation value of said signalling conductor, shielding means between the power line and the signalling conductor, said shielding means being of a conductivity of the order of one of the power carrying conductorsand having a plurality of highly conductive ground taps, said shielding means being adapted to carry a suflicient cur'- rent-low therein in opposition to the effect of the disturbingiow of current as to limit the induced voltage on the signalling conductor to a valuetsafely within the insulation value of the signalling conductor, due to either unbalanced electromagnetic induction of the non-grounded current'flowin the power line or to the conducted vflow of fault current in the case of a ground fault of a conductor of the power line.

4. A system' of the class described forvpreventing the magnetic eect of an electrlc power transmission system from interrupting the operation of an adjacent communlcation system, which comprises the combination of an A. C. power transmitting line, said line comprising a plurality of insulated me-` tallic power carrying conductors, an insulated signalling conductor adjacent the power line, said signalling conductor being insulatedffor relatively low voltage only and adaptled to employ vcurrents of a relatively lowr magnitude, said signalling conductor extending along the power line for a distance great enough that the residual unneutralized magnetic field of the ilow of current in the power line due to either normal or abnormal current flow in said power carrying conductors may induce an excessive potential in said signalling conductor, tending to exceed either the insulating lvalue ofv the signalling conductor or to cause therein abnormally large current Hows, and shielding means between di sulicient extent and of'a conductivity Sulli- 'cient that the current ow induced therein by the power line and the signalling conductor,

said shielding means comprising a closed loop t CERTIFICATE orcoRREcTloN. Patent No. 1, 782, 37s. i Granted Novembe? 2s, 1,930, to

' Amman HERZ.` 4

It is hereby certified that error appears .in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 3, Eine 102, claim 1, strike' ontvthe word "interposed"; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the samemay conform to the record of the case in fthe Patent Office.

'signed and sealed this 6th any of January, A. D. 192.1.

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